Proverbi 19:13

13 Il figliuolo stolto è una grande sciagura a suo padre; E le risse della moglie sono un gocciolar continuo.

Proverbi 19:13 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father
Or, "the calamities of his father" ^F17; he brings them to him. A very great affliction he is, and which has many distresses and sorrows in it; as loss of reputation and credit in his family, which is sunk by his behaviour, instead of being supported and increased; loss of substance, through extravagance and riotous living, and the ruin of his soul and body by his wicked practices; see ( Proverbs 10:1 ) ; and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping;
or like the dropping of rain, in a rainy day, into a house out of repair, and which is very uncomfortable to, the inhabitants of it; see ( Proverbs 27:15 ) . Such are the contentions of a peevish, ill natured, and brawling wife, who is always scolding; and which is a continual vexation to a man, and renders him very uneasy in life: such a continual dropping was Xantippe to Socrates, who teased him night and day with her brawls and contentions ^F18. A great unhappiness each of these must be!

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (twwh) "calamitates", Vatablus; "aerumnae", Piscator, Michaelis; "causa aerumnarum", Junius & Tremellius.
F18 A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 1. c. 17.

Proverbi 19:13 In-Context

11 Il senno dell’uomo rallenta l’ira di esso; E la sua gloria è di passar sopra le offese.

12 L’indegnazione del re è come il ruggito del leoncello; Ma il suo favore è come la rugiada sopra l’erba.

13 Il figliuolo stolto è una grande sciagura a suo padre; E le risse della moglie sono un gocciolar continuo.

14 Casa e sostanza sono l’eredità de’ padri; Ma dal Signore viene la moglie prudente.

15 La pigrizia fa cadere in profondo sonno; E la persona negligente avrà fame.